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2011 INTERNATIONAL FALL SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES
AND APPLICATIONS
FSFLA 2011
(formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)
Tarragona, Spain
October 31 ­ November 4, 2011
Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/
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ADDRESSED TO:
Undergraduate and graduate students from around
the world. Most appropriate degrees include:
Computer Science and Mathematics. Other students
(for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical
Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) are
welcome too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics.
The School is appropriate also for people more
advanced in their career who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in the field.
There will be no overlap in the schedule of the courses.
The previous event was SSFLA 2011 (http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2011/).
COURSES AND PROFESSORS:
- Franz Baader (Technische Dresden), Reasoning in
Description Logics [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata and
Weighted Logic [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
- Max H. Garzon (Memphis), DNA Codeword Design
and DNA Languages [introductory/intermediate, 10 hours]
- Venkatesan Guruswami (Carnegie Mellon), The
Complexity of Approximate Constraint Satisfaction [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Tao Jiang (California Riverside), Average-case
Analysis and Lower Bounds by the
Incompressibility Method [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Michael Moortgat (Utrecht), Type-logical
Grammars: Expressivity, Parsing Complexity [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
- Helmut Seidl (Technische München), Macro
Treetransducers for XML Processing [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Alan Selman (Buffalo), Probabilistic Complexity
Classes [intermediate, 10 hours]
- Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo), Automatic
Sequences, Decidability, and Enumeration [intermediate, 6 hours]
SCHOOL PAPER:
On a voluntary basis, within 6 months after the
end of the School, students will be expected to
draft an individual or jointly-authored research
paper on a topic covered during the classes under
the guidance of the lecturing staff.
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done on line at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/Registration.php
FEES:
They are variable, depending on the number of
courses each student takes. The rule is:
1 hour =
- 10 euros (for payments until July 31, 2011),
- 15 euros (for payments after July 31, 2011).
The fees must be paid to the School's bank account:
Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid,
Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift
code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos
Martin-Vide GRLMC; address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain)
Please mention FSFLA 2011 and your full name in
the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.
Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.
For early reduced rates, please notice that the
date that counts is the date of the arrival of
the fees to the Schools account.
People registering on site at the beginning of
the School must pay in cash. For the sake of
local organization, however, it is much
recommended to complete the registration and the payment earlier.
ACCOMMODATION:
Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.
CERTIFICATES:
Students will be delivered a certificate stating
the courses attended, their contents, and their
duration. Those participants who will choose to
be involved in a research paper will receive an
additional certificate at the completion of the
task, independently on whether the paper will finally get published or not.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Announcement of the programme: June 4, 2011
Starting of the registration: June 4, 2011
Early registration deadline: July 31, 2011
Starting of the School: October 31, 2011
End of the School: November 4, 2011
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat
WEBSITE:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/
POSTAL ADDRESS:
FSFLA 2011
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Diputació de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili